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14. Procrastination. If you had more time, you’d be able to put it off longer. What do you put off to the last moment? Why? Tell a story about how you just barely got something done in time – or didn’t.
Alternate: Splat! Use that word in a story or a poem.

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I'm Not As Strong

They walked a road of sorrow
Waiting on the light of tomorrow
For now he'd been gone a day or so
To greater things then we'd ever know

I can't see you
Wonder why?
I'm not as strong
as before you died

"Oh, friends of mine
Shall we dine?
Partake a drop of wine?
Oh, friends of mine."

I can't see you
Wonder why?
I'm not as strong
as before you died

In that moment they recognized
The man they'd known, and before their eyes
He disappeared into the night
And so became your fragile state of mind

I can't see you
Wonder why?
I'm not as strong
because he lied

And they ask themselves as they retire
"Weren't our hearts burning with desire?"

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